Equipment swaps and blinking

[Hokori]

I can't stand that I blink every time I want to use a weapon skill. Your equipment should not be able to visibly change while you are engaged. Just in case someone enjoys their character blinking constantly, make it an option that can be turned on or off.

Also, if multiply equipment changes happen in quick succession, like what happens when switching equipment before a weapon skill, only one message should be displayed instead of the chat log being flooded by "Equipment Changed" messages.

I think the dev team has already addressed it, but I would love to be able to legally string different macros together so that I wouldn't have to hit 4 macros to switch into weapon skill gear and then back into tping gear.

[Mirage]

Totally agree. Saved equipment sets would probably be sufficient instead of macro stringing, though. If you can load an entire equipment set with a single macro line, 6 lines would be sufficient.

[Trisscar]

There's an aspect of the PvP island that penalizes people for gear swapping that I always felt should've been made a normal aspect of gameplay. This way people would weigh the consequences of swapping gear, and decide whether getting an extra 2% damage is really worth facing the penalty.

I have a feeling they would not.

[Alhanelem]

Blinking isn't something they put in the game because they thought it was cool. It's just a loading transition. We've also asked about a million times for this and they've said they can't get rid of it. The only thing they've done is give us more ways to work around it, e.g. <stpt> and <stal>.

Though trust me when I say basically everyone wants it to die in a fire.

[Arcon]

I have a feeling they would not.

Not surprised you'd think that, as you don't seem to get the point of gear swapping.

[Trisscar]

Not surprised you'd think that, as you don't seem to get the point of gear swapping.

I do get it, it's to keep on chasing that extra little bit of damage and bragging about how 'good' a player you are.

I did tests on gear swapping and it isn't as great as people make it sound, and the calculations are all garbage.

Spent nearly three straight months testing one of the merit weapon skills 5/5 without gear, with TP gear, with stat relevant gear and never saw the 'godly' results people talk about. There was perhaps 500 damage difference between naked and wearing stat relevant gear, and I'm pretty sure that was a result of a couple criticals.

[Arcon]

You're lying through your teeth.

[Trisscar]

You're lying through your teeth.

No, I am not. The only place that I avoided was Abyssea because I was worried about contamination of the results.

[Arcon]

Why? How does Abyssea contaminate the results? What exactly were your results? How could it have been a critical hit when no merited weapon skill can even be critical? What job, WS, what was your gear, how many samples?

[Mirage]

Blinking isn't something they put in the game because they thought it was cool. It's just a loading transition. We've also asked about a million times for this and they've said they can't get rid of it. The only thing they've done is give us more ways to work around it, e.g. <stpt> and <stal>.

Though trust me when I say basically everyone wants it to die in a fire.

Of course they can get rid of the blinking. Just stop the game from loading new gear while you are in combat, except for weapons. People have been able to do this through reverse engineering without even looking at the source code, of course SE is able to do it if they just want to.

I do get it, it's to keep on chasing that extra little bit of damage and bragging about how 'good' a player you are.

I did tests on gear swapping and it isn't as great as people make it sound, and the calculations are all garbage.

Spent nearly three straight months testing one of the merit weapon skills 5/5 without gear, with TP gear, with stat relevant gear and never saw the 'godly' results people talk about. There was perhaps 500 damage difference between naked and wearing stat relevant gear, and I'm pretty sure that was a result of a couple criticals.

I remember that time I scored a critical Cure 4 and healed for 60% more than I do when not wearing anything. I'm sure it had nothing to do with my gear.

and "only 500 damage". You say that as if it's an insignificant amount. How much did you do again, 10000 damage in total per WS? Cause if you only did 2000, 500 damage is 25%, and I have problems seeing how 25% is not a significant difference.